"Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."
- Poet Robert Frost
Since it first inspired the imagination of the American public, baseball has been the inspiration of numerous songs and musical compositions. On this page we have collected many examples of this music.
We have created and are offering for download a collection of unique 19th Century and early 20th Century instrumental and vocal sheet music related to baseball, as well as a collection of traditional tunes related to baseball prepared as notated arrangements. We also recently added a PDF collection of unique ephemera extras related to baseball in early America.
We also have a Windows baseball screen saver created from dozens of images of early old-time baseball, a few of which you can see on this page.
We also now have a free collection of classic baseball music in MP3 format.
.
Here's something you won't hear every day......
the legend Bob Dylan singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame acapella!
"I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair those losses and be a blessing to us." - Walt Whitman
Baseball Extra PDFs
|
screensaver.
Or on some Windows system you can "right
click" on the downloaded file and choose
"install", or "test" if you want to view
the screen saver before installing. If you
have any questions about this send us an -
|
Jack Kerouac's Baseball Fantasy Game An American baseball haiku,
by the famous Beat poet Jack Kerouac
(recorded with jazz and other haiku on Blues
and Haikus in 1959): One
thing not too well known about the legendary
American Beat writer and poet Jack Kerouac
is that almost all his life he played a
baseball card game of his own invention. Go to this page and read all about that amazing homemade
baseball card game.
|
 The National Gameby John Phillip Sousa - 1925 With its popular reputation and good wages, the Sousa Band was able to recruit some of the best musicians around. For 39 years, this large group toured the
country by train. A Sousa Band tour would last
for many months, often with several
performances each day and only a few days off
for travel between cities. The band traveled
to every corner of the United States and did
several European tours and one world tour.
Together they traveled more than 1 million
miles, and they still managed to find the time
for other fun. |
The
Sousa band had its own baseball team, and
Sousa was often the pitcher. They played
against local baseball teams and those of
rival bands. Sousa composed the piece featured
here,
© 2023 - Amaranth Publishing |
including
